I’m trying to use a series of datasets created in windows circa 1995 (with .ssd extensions). Sas appears to recognize them as legit using the v604 engine, but when I try to use, gives the error “The value is not a valid SAS name.” and aborts with 0 observations and 1 variable (see below). I’m currently running sas 9.4 64 bit in Windows 7. Possibly of note (but I don’t think so) is that I’m running Sas under Vmware Fusion on a mac. However, this runs fine with hundreds of other data sets (including .sd2 extension files from the late 90’s). These data sets are critical to recover, so any help will be greatly appreciated. The Log file is below. I’m also attaching one of the smaller (.5 mb) datasets in case that’s of any help. Thanks! Joe Allen University of Virginia 192 libname aja v604 'g:\'; NOTE: Libref AJA was successfully assigned as follows: Engine: V604 Physical Name: g:\ 193 data new;set aja.randhsa;run; ERROR: The value is not a valid SAS name. NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors. WARNING: The data set WORK.NEW may be incomplete. When this step was stopped there were 0 observations and 1 variables.
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